Ambassador Yehuda Avner

The Prime Ministers Documentary – Premieres April 2013!

The Prime Ministers: Part I, The Pioneers, a full-length documentary film based on Yehuda Avner’s bestselling book, stars Sandra Bullock as the voice of Golda Meir, Michael Douglas as the voice of Yitzhak Rabin, and Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Levi Eshkol. It was produced by Academy Award-winning Moriah Films, the film division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Ambassador Yehuda Avner
is an Israeli former diplomat and prime ministerial advisor. Born in Manchester, England in 1928, he arrived in British Mandatory Palestine in 1947. He fought in the 1948 War of Independence, and was among the founders of Kibbutz Lavi in the Galilee. During a lengthy diplomatic career, he served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York and the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, and as Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, Ireland and Australia. Ambassador Avner served as speechwriter and secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, and adviser to Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Shimon Peres. Ambassador Avner is the author of The Young Inheritors: A Portrait of Israel’s Children (1984) and THE PRIME MINISTERS: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (2010). In 1995, the Yehuda Avner Chair in Religion and Politics was established at Bar-Ilan University. Ambassador Avner is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and a member of the Ambassadorial Appointments Committee.